Pure white Christmas beauty – A Chinese female photographer’s cross-Hokkaido journey!

Hokkaido, located in the northernmost part of Japan and the country’s second-largest island, attracts a large number of tourists every winter. This time, Chinese photographer Ying Yinchose to take a train from Sapporo, traveling across much of Hokkaido all the way to the Sea of Okhotsk, capturing the snowy winter landscapes and snow-covered cityscapes of Hokkaido through her lens.

She said, “Snow is a tangible entity, filling the field of vision with its voluminous whiteness. As I stayed in different cities, I would stand by the roadside observing the forms of the cities in the snowstorm. Each building, each pedestrian, under the contrast of the snowy scenery, became an individual entity, detached from the surrounding environment, resembling a fragment or section of a watercolor painting. They are full of stories, and also a moment of time that has been forever frozen.”

Through YingYin’s photographic lens, in the vast white expanse of Hokkaido, the whole world appears pale, with cities wrapped in thick layers of snow yet revealing some wonderfully intricate details — just like the fairy-tale worlds one has imagined countless times.

What does Hokkaido look like through your eyes?

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